I told you it looks like a turtle!

This is how Turtle Island (Guishan, 龜山島) looks a bit further south, That’s the iconic view that gave it the name Turtle Island. It would look even better from the mountains, but my rooftop will do. Turtle Island is a volcano and it’s very close to the coast, but due to humidity and haze it’s not easy to have a clear image of it from this far away. It looks deceptively close in my picture because:

a) It’s fairly big and rises above the sea by 400m, Yilan county is completely flat so even if it’s a few kilometers off the coast it always looks very close

b) I used a very long zoom to take this image, and it tends to “squeeze” everything in the image, making all the subjects look closer to each other than what they actually are